Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Captain E. J. Wendell '07 will speak on the plans for the lacrosse season, Coach D. P. Penhallow '03 will explain the game in detail, for the benefit of new men, and J. M. Groves '05 will describe the plan which has been formed for sending a team of Harvard lacrosse players to England next fall...
That the training tables are conducted extravagantly I am more than ready to admit; but why attack such an important institution blindly, because of its apparent faults, and entirely disregard its inestimable benefit as a factor in our athletic life...
...retiring in nature, are developed into far more efficient workers by the contact of the training table. I know of one cases where the men at table made a special effort to bring out an extremely backward and awkward man, who afterward frankly spoke of the pleasure and benefit which he had gained there...
...affairs, political and social, of educated men who keep aloof from the conditions of practical life, is apt to be valueless to those other men who do really wage effective war against the forces of baseness and evil. From the political standpoint, education is a harm and not a benefit to the men whom it serves as an excuse for refusing to mingle with their fellows and for standing aloof from the broad sweep of our national life in a curiously impotent spirit of fancied superiority. The political wrong-headedness of such men is quite as great as that...
...hand you treat your education as a weapon the more in your hands, a weapon to fit you to do better in the hard struggle of effort and not as excusing you in any way from taking part in practical fashion in that struggle, then it will be a benefit to you. Let each of you college men remember in after life that in the fundamentals he is very much like his fellows who have not been to college, and that if he is to achieve results, instead of confining himself exclusively to disparagement of other men who achieve them...